{"id":66639,"date":"2017-06-04T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66639"},"modified":"2017-06-04T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T23:00:20","slug":"who-is-responsible-for-the-high-number-killed-by-the-recent-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/04\/who-is-responsible-for-the-high-number-killed-by-the-recent-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HIGH NUMBER KILLED BY THE RECENT FLOODS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At a discussion I had with a climatologist based in Australia, I was told that not a single death was reported from Bangladesh on account of recent Mora cyclone, even though the density of the population was very high and the land was practically flat when compared to areas affected in Sir Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>He further elaborated that sufficient advance information was made available through meteorological information streams that could have alerted the disaster management systems. It was the efficient management of early warning systems which enabled the people to move away from dangerous areas which prevented any deaths in Bangladesh. In short, the systems delivered and served the people whose benefit was the prime objective of the disaster management structure.<\/p>\n<p>When very high rainfall was expected and recorded in the catchment areas and other landslide prone areas why didn\u2019t the disaster management move as expected? Didn\u2019t we have a system or was it mismanaged to cause over 200 deaths and destruction to tens of thousands of ordinary Sri Lankan citizens?<\/p>\n<p>According to the climatologist the disaster could have been managed and most of the deaths could have been prevented. The mill cannot grind with water that is past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA At a discussion I had with a climatologist based in Australia, I was told that not a single death was reported from Bangladesh on account of recent Mora cyclone, even though the density of the population was very high and the land was practically flat when compared to areas affected in Sir Lanka. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}